Artificial fishing-bait.



PATENTED MAR. 29, 1904. F.BURDETT. ARTIFICIAL FISHING BAIT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

i No. 755,612. I V

UNITED STATES FRANK BURDETT,

" Patented. March 29, 1904.

OF GRAVENHURST, CAN ADA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO GEORGE STEVENSON AND HARRY BROOKS HOWSON, OF TORONTO, c NAn'A.

ARTIFICIAL FISHING-BAIT.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Iietters Patent No. 755,612, dated March 29, 1964.

" 7 Application filed flay 6, 1903. Serial No. 155,779. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern. Be it known that I, FRANK BURDE'I'I, ma 'chinist, of the town of Gravenhurst, in the v county of Peterborough, in the Province of Ontario, Canada,-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Artificial Fishing- Baits, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to improvements in artificial fishing-baits; and the object of the in- I0 vention is to devise a bait of the class called artificial minnow, which may be adapted more particularly for trolling for maskalonge, bass, pike, or pickerel or other fishcaught by troll, which may be readily bitten )5 at by the fish without any danger of warding off the fish, and thereby allowing the fish to pass freely back onto the hook; and it consists, 1 essentially, of a bent piece of metal having two sides substantially in the form of a minnow,

2 such sides being connectedin the tail portion by a cross-bar and being provided interme-',

diate of their length on the interior ofthe sides with wings to induce rotation of the bait, the wire or cord passing through the head end and cross-bar and provided at the tail end with feathered hooks, such- -wire being designed to be connected to the line and the parts being arranged and constructed in detail, as hereinafter more particularly explained. 3 Figure :1 is a perspective view of an artificial fishing-bait constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section looking from the open side of the bait. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section frdm the closed side of the bait. Fig. 4 is-a cross-section.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A A are the two sides of the minnow-bait, which are preferably formed of one piece, the 4 bend being preferably at the head end. ,The sides A A are provided at the interior with I a cross-bar a and wings a a, at each side reversely setyso as to formsubstantially a .thread of a screw.

4 '5 B a wireiwhich extends thro g a 5015i the crossbar a and through a hole in the bent or connected end of the sides A A. The wire B is provided with a bead 6 on the outside of the cross-bar to retain the wire in place, and from an eye 6 extends the feather- 5 0. -ed hooks 6 which are of the usual constructhe water the wings a impart a rotary movement to the minnow from side to side or crosswise, and the sides being made of bright metal necessarily give very much'the appearance of areal fish, and as such sides on'the' outside 5 are perfectly smooth the artificial minnow offers no obstruction to the mouth of the fish, which when it bites at the minnowwill cause the mouth of the fish to pass rearwardly over the smooth sides A A and backwardly on to 7 the feather-hooks, by which the fish will be caught.

Heretofore it has been the practice to make the minnows with fins extending outwardly near the head end, and these had the efiect'of warding off the fish, because as soon asthe fish bit at the bait the obstruction would cause it to let go and move awayzbut with my construction this objection is entirely avoided,

. as the wings which give the rotary movement 30 to the bait are entirely inside the sides and,

offer no obstruction to the grip of the fish and allow a freedom in this respect and a consequent free movement backward on to the V hooks, which is the end which I have in view 5 and which I have found from a practical test to be an important desideratum in artificia baits of this'character. 1 j

What I claim as my invention isi An artificial fishing bait comprising a strip 9 of sheet metal doubled upon itself with a crossbar at extending between, a wire extending stantially as described. centrally through the cross-bar and between the doubled sheet metal and wings on the op- FRANK BURDETT v posite inner sides of the doubled sheet metal I Witnesses:

said wings being independent of each other B. BOYD, k and those on one side inclining in the opposite M. MCLAREN.

direction from those on the other side, sub- 

